A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
James F. Cooper

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
Kate Moss

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
Wilfrid Laurier

I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
Natasha Henstridge

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
Georges Simenon

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
Star Jones

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
Henry Lawson

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.
Erno Rubik

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Jean Rostand

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.
Robbie Fowler

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Amy Goodman